Fishing near Foxborough in Norfolk County, MA

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Yellow Perch, Bluegill, Mirror Carp, Calico Bass(Black Crappie)
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Neponset near Foxborough

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My 2nd Bass near Foxborough

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Top Fishing Spots near Foxborough

Foundry Pond
Foundry Pond

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Neponset Reservoir
Neponset Reservoir

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Wolomolopoag Pond
Wolomolopoag Pond

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No Name Pond
No Name Pond

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Canoe River
Canoe River

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# Reviews: 5
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Lake Mirimichi
Lake Mirimichi

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Foxborough Area Fish Species

Recent Foxborough Fishing Reports

The reservoir after work Fishing Report Aug 03, 2011

The reservoir after work

Neponset reservoir -

Went out around 6pm. Had a good bass competition going. Jon won 6-5. He had the large fish at around 2.75. Good trip....

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Foundry Pond Fishing Report Oct 14, 2008

Foundry Pond

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Had to try fishing a pond I have not for a few years. With it being windy, it still worked out pretty well. 'Been using GY Kreature baits lately...

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I'll take "fish names that start with a P for 100" Fishing Report Apr 25, 2009

I'll take "fish names that start with a P for 100"

Foundry Pond, Foxboro, MA -

perch and pickerel were the special of the day, with some calico bass mixed in.

first time at foundry pond in foxboro (thanks popo) and will no...

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Old faithful, Neponset Reservoir Fishing Report Jun 08, 2009

Old faithful, Neponset Reservoir

Neponset Reservoir -

I decided to take an afternoon trip to my favorite pond. It was really nice catching a bunch of fish, but nothing bigger than 1.5 lbs. I caught abou...

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FIRST CATCH OF THE SEASON  Fishing Report Mar 28, 2010

FIRST CATCH OF THE SEASON

Neponset Reservior -

Neponset Reservior at Kersey Point of Kersey Rd kind of windy but the pike were biting mainly on shallow water crank bait ...

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Sunset Lake Fishing Report May 14, 2010

Sunset Lake

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Sunset Lake off of Granite St
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Baits and Tackle used near Foxborough

Check Prices

  • Burning a Manns wake bait over weeds produced bites on every other cast.
  • black worm
  • 5 inch senko neon green/cream 4 inch watermellon w/ blk flake they were hitting on the way in. just drifting and casting on little cleo spoons.
  • Worm
  • we used wonder bread for the carp. and the bass were hitting spoons
  • shiners
  • senkos t rigged midnight flake
  • Standard BPS Red/White 3" Popper and a purple/black spinner bait
  • Yum 5" senko type worm and Yum 3.5" craw papi.
  • Rubber worms, swimbaits

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Shiner one foot below float.
  • Large fat night crawlers, shinners were the best but also deep crank bait
  • Fished a shiner two feet below a float.
  • cauth the 4 lb on shiner, and the others on rubber worms
  • live shiners, 5-6 inches long
  • slug
  • worm
  • Medium to small sized frogs seem to work the best but ive even caught pike and largemouth off of a full grown frog sink em or let em swim on top either way works very effectivly
  • Chartreuse Powerbait
  • Medium sized Frog

Creature Check Prices

  • Gary Yamomoto Kreature, red and black, or green with black specks...on the top, twitched through the weeds, slime, or open water. Sometimes I let it sink to the bottom and twitch it slightly. The one that got away was of course, huge. I'm bummin'.
  • Brown with purple flecks, first time using them.
  • GY Kreature bait, green with specks., see picture
  • Black and Blue as usual
  • Berkley 4.5in Pit Boss Green Pumpkin
  • Zoom Brush Hog (6") in Watermelon Seed. Texas-rigged with 3/8 oz tungsten weight and 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook.
  • squarebill crankbait and a shakeyhead rigged 4" green pit-boss.
  • 4in beaver bait black and blue
    1oz tungsten
  • Reaction Innovations Sweet Beaver 4.20
    -Dirty Sanchez, and Watermelon/Red colors.
  • Zoom Super Hog - Candy color

Tube Check Prices

  • tube dark...
  • texas rigged
  • 10" on a tube
    10-1/2" on inline spinner
    14-1/2" 1lb 5oz on inline spinner
  • white tube
  • Weighted tubes, spoon, and rubber worms
  • Grayish Blue with flakes 1/8weighted hook
  • use small tube
  • 8 lb line
    weightless
    3/0 hook

Minnow Check Prices

  • Caught by a friend on a shiner.
  • Shiners
  • minnows and night crawlers and one on a crank bait. They were suspended up high today so all you had to do was drop the lure or bait with no weight and just sit there and wait for them to gulp it down
  • 3 to 4 foot of line on a pop up flag
  • Live, Medium sized silver side shiners.
  • small minnows, pretty active
  • Used a live shiner to see what I would catch since I haven't had much luck with my artificial tackle.
  • medium-sized shiner
  • shiners
  • shiner

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Heddon Lure, Mini Torpedo...silver in color with red below lip. Great lure, works great...just put together in haste, and fell apart.
  • topwater and worms
  • Heddon flourescent baby torpedo. Jitter, pop, and play dead.
  • Rapala Poppers
  • good ole fashioned jitter bug
  • Purple Flash Popper
  • basic top water pencil popper type lure.
  • Booyah Pad Crasher brown yellow top
  • top water popper minnow orange bottom red mouth blue top
  • same as bass bait

Lizard Check Prices

  • Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.
  • Red/Red
  • 8" Pumpkinseed
  • This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.
  • Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin
  • watermelon/red jr brush hog w/slider head 1/8 oz

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • Senko, 5", green with red specks.
  • red 5" Senko
  • Sluggo
  • baby bass berkley slug
  • BASS ASASSIONS WHITE,BABY BASS AND ARKANSAW SHINNER WORK WELL!
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
  • 6" Senko (see pic for color)
    Rapala Floating Minnow
  • 5" baby bass Senko - caught 2 chain pickerel and one largemouth bass
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
  • rapala jerkbait bass colored suspended 4-5 ft

Fly (Other) Check Prices

  • Green Popper Frog Fly
  • Berkley PowerBait
    1" Power Honey Worms
  • Again Dat food( shrimplies and gold) and feed corn were present. We also tried a packbait of Limeycarper, as well as bread, strawberry canned corn, and luncheon meat.

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

  • BFG Duel Runners

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • golden spinner
  • tornado black
  • Mostly caught on shore line with a spinner bait or buzz bait
  • single coloroado # 5, blue w/red speckle skirt.3/8oz
  • Tornado spinner bait
  • Worked several lures, while my son was busy catching the fish with shiners.
  • Fishing tree lines
  • Fishing rocks and open water
  • Fishing shore line
  • white spinner bait with white curly tail grub

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Strike King Rage Toad
  • Strike King Rage Tail (Rage Toad).
  • Weedless Topwater Frog
  • Spro Frog
  • Koppers live target in bull frog and toad
  • chartreuse SnagProof frog
  • Frog popper with a black body and brownish yellow skirt legs
  • Zman leoprd frog pattern rigged w/ 6/0 Gami hook
  • Used Zoom Horny Toad watermelon color and Senko watermelon seed
  • Brown and White Soft plastic swim frog, texas rigged with a 3/16 ounce red colored weight and red plastic ball. StrikeKing Baits

Streamer Check Prices

  • Thomas's buoyant spoon
    woolly bugger
    Honey worm
  • Chart/White clouser

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • a lot of plastic worms work out.
  • A pair of 7in on a jerkbait
  • Jerkbait
  • A pair of 12in on the jerkbait
  • RC jerkbait did most of the heavy lifting. It caught 7 0f the 8 bass 5 of the 7 pickles and 1 sunnie.

    Also caught a bass on a spinnerbait and 2 pickles on a minus
  • slow action on jerkbait long pauses
  • seinko 5" junebug purple
  • I was using a green pumpkin/watermelon senko
  • I got the lure at Dick's on the sale end cap. I forget the brand.
  • small ultra lite baits

    many species of fish caught over the years; trout, salmon, largemouth bass, white perch, yellow perch, calico bass, pickerel, blue gills.
    The 100 is estimated

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • black and while bivisble about size 16

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Panther Martin
  • mepps agalia
  • silver in-line spinner with red feather
  • Rooster Tail spinner, light brown.
  • 1/8oz Rooster Tail
  • Gold spinner
  • Rooster Tail
  • Mix of Mepps, Blue Fox spinners, variety of colors, mostly gold based
  • Mepps #1 Silver with a white foxtail
  • 1/8 oz. Rooster Tail

Worm Check Prices

  • i got 2 on a 4 inch yum and nicholas got 1 on a rapala. i did hook a 4 or 5 pounder on a spoon, only to have him snap my line about 5 feet from the boat. at least he looked that big.

    less than a half hour before i was telling nicholas how i could see my line had stretched and weakened from all the fish we were catching. and sure enough, finally hooked a nice one and....
  • green w/ red flake
  • 5" stick worms YUMM green pumpkin and BassPro green with red, blue, and gold flake. This one was on a YUMM green Pumpkin
  • rat l trap, wacky worm
  • 5" stick worms YUMM green pumpkin and BassPro green with red, blue, and gold flake. This one was on a YUMM green Pumpkin also.
  • Just a regular powerbait worm hooked thru the top.
  • wonderbread to the rescue
  • 5" Red/Black Senko
  • red shad senko 6 inch
  • senkos you name it i tryed it tried a kvd squair bill 4 ft dive even tried a plug around the pads

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
  • Storm Shad Minnow
  • xps swimbait
  • Rapala- minnow like colors, 2.5"
  • Dark Powerbait 7" worms. no weight.
  • Dark Senkos wacky
  • Storm shad mullet color
  • Small swim bait. Also my 12 year old son caught one on a shiner. From this and previous trips, seen some close to a pound in here. Pretty decent size for a perch.
  • Hopefully this strikeKing jointed swimbait catches me something other than bass this
    season
  • 4 1/2" Shadalicous Sexy Shad &
    Bluegill Bandit 100 Crankbait

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • Jerk bait, slash bait, jig, crankbait, rat-l-trap
  • Used an assortment of hard and soft baits. Spinnerbaits work really well.
  • 3 Bass all between 7in-8in on a Jerkabait, Rooster Tail, and Finnesse Worm
  • Inline Spinner & Jerkbait
    1st was 7in
    2nd was 12in 7oz
    3rd was 10in
    4th was 11-1/2in 9oz
  • MS Slammer 7" Perch
    Buzzjet Real Largemouth
    Rage Eeliminator Watermelon Red
    KVD Swim Jig Bluegill
    Green Pumpkin Brush Hog
  • Crank and buzzbait
  • Inline Spinner, and Jerkbait all in the 6"-8" range
  • Inline Spinner on the 8"
    Popper for the 12" 3-4lb, 1/2lb, 9"
  • All between 6" & 9"
  • A mix of 6" to 1lb

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • We used a variety of dark-colored soft plastics
  • Worm, and Spinnerbait

    1.48lbs, and three 1lbers

    4 shorts
  • 1st bass on jitterbug 2nd bass on craw 3rd bass on senko
  • Drop Shot
  • DropShot - Bass Pro XPS hand poured worm
  • Dropshot - XPS Hand Poured Worm
  • Five 2lbers
    Ten between 1-3/4lbs and 1lb
  • Dropshot Sluggo
  • Dropshot
  • 1 Keeper barely 12"
    The rest were in the 8"-11"range

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

  • 1/32oz chartreuse and white eagle claw jig with white Berkeley honey worm.
  • 1/16oz chartreuse and white eagle claw jig with a red Berkeley honey worm.

Saltwater Spoon Check Prices

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Fishing live target Minnow jerk bait
  • zoom bass love em super fluke
  • Rapala Original #7
  • Powerbait
  • Powerbait - Garlic scented (green)
  • Rocket Shad Spinner Bait
  • Rooster Tail
  • bleeding hook rapala floater
  • Rapala F-5 Original
  • I got my 6in. on a Rooster Tail.
    Chris got his 12in on Spinner Bait

Craw Check Prices

  • nihcolas got 3 on a perch rapala. i got 4 on a crawdad.
  • brownish red 3-1/4 inch yamamoto crawdad
  • doesn't look it in the pic, but he was 15 inches.
  • Blue/black Gary Yamamoto
  • yamamoto watermelon crawdad

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
  • Rapala Jerkbait
  • Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait
  • Baby Bass Rapala Dive To Bait
  • 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
  • I used Rapala Jointed Baby Bass 2".
  • If your going for Larry, you should use a large swimmer bait that only he will hit
  • Shad Rap in Blue/Black color
  • 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color

Saltwater Hard Bait Check Prices

  • metal lures deadly dicks and 3 oz. metal mackerel jigs.

Jigs Check Prices

  • 3lb 2oz was my only contribution to our limit.

    Everything else was 1-1/4lbs or smaller for me

Crankbait Check Prices

  • i had 29 and nicholas had 34. mostly rapalas, but they were hitting everything we put in the water. most were 10 / 11 inches. a few smaller, a couple bigger.
  • Shallow Water Daiwa Crank. Fished slow
  • Rapala DT-4
  • nicholas had 11 and i had 4. all crankbaits. a couple were pretty big for sunfish.
  • kept hitting the crankbait right on of the cast just as i started retirieve.
  • nicholas caught 15 and i got 4. all on rapalas
  • tried a soft worm for a while, but got nothing. crankbaits and spoons work well on this pond.
  • perch rapala
  • Rapala DT-4, Perch
  • Used a small suspending minnow worked great caught a couple of yellow perch as well

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Hooked up but lot fish on KVD swim jig, dad caught one on strike king spinnerbait.
  • Bitsy Bug- black and blue with a black and blue crazy leg craw trailer
  • White Jig w/ White Twin Tail Grub Trailer
  • 3/4lb on Jig
    two 10 inchers on drop shot
  • flipping rubber craws with a 1 oz weight
  • Jig and pig dragged over deeper boulders. Also cuaght fish witha small jerkbait and a shallow crank.
  • Strike King 1/4oz Brown football jig.

    YUM Swimming Shad soft plastic Brown/White
  • Strike King Bass Jig
  • Jigs and frogs in the wood and pads
  • manns stone 3/8 jig

Emerger Check Prices

  • Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • IMITATION minnow small works create on slow steady retrieve with short pauses
  • 5" and 6" Senko
  • Yamamoto 5" Senko watermelon limited edition
  • 4" senkos texas rigged in Bk/Bl and watermellon red
  • Gary Yamamoto 3" Watermelon Senko with black and red flakes, fished weightless Texas rigged.
  • 2” Strom Wildeye Live Crappie
  • Storm 2in Perch
  • 3 keepers, one was culled
  • Only keeper was just over a pound
  • 5lbs was the lunker, everthing else was 2lbs, and smaller

Wet Fly Check Prices

  • White Wooly bugger
  • White wooly bugger
  • Olive wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • regular silver spoon
  • "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
  • "5 of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
  • Red and White Eppinger Dardevle
  • gold little cleo
  • Gold Johnson's Silver minnow 1/8oz
  • Golden 1/4 oz little cleo
  • 1/4 oz gold kastmaster
  • Al's goldfish (cooper 3/16 oz)
  • 1/6oz Thomas’ buoyant spoons

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back
  • rattler
  • we both used rattlers all night. first time we have used them for a good length of time and tonight they were working.
  • 1/2oz Rapala Rattlin'
  • Shad Rattlin' Rapala
  • Rapala Rattlin' Baby Bass
  • the bass are waiting for bait fish to emerge from stream and were nailing lipless and regular crankbaits. also caught one on a spinner
  • a yo-ziri lipless crankbait green back,silver sides,and orange belly. and a 3/8 oz. football head jig/w a strike king rage tail craw in dirty craw color texas rigged to it.
  • Live Target Golden Shiner Vibration Trap Lipless Crankbait

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • nice large nightcrawlers
  • Floating off the bottom, egg sinker and 16" leader.
  • Floated a nightcrawler off the bottom.
  • Float nightcrawlers off the bottom.
  • nightcrawlers with an eagle claw hook rig with gold spinner "keep a nice long worm tail hanging from the hook"
  • Nightcrawlers, trouworms, some lure I lost, and a Rapala floating minnow in gold
  • night crawlers are now my favorite live bait.
  • night crawlers and worms get the fish bitting.
  • we used live worms it worked very well
  • fish on the bottom water is hot and deep

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

  • Calms

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • medium speed
  • Gold Johnson silver minnow.

    Catch and release.

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • Popper Fishing
  • Caught on Lucky craft Sammy, spinnerbaits, and 9ers umbrella rigs.
  • Popper fishing off the boat

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • I made bottle Caps, Gold from beers...

Grub Check Prices

  • Caught the little one on a black grub. The decent one took a live sunfish.
  • Yellow Grubs from Walmart with Brown weighted jig heads. Also caught one on a purple ribbontail on a Texas rig.
  • Pumpkin tail carolina style
  • 2in. chartreuse colored w/ black spots grub (texas rigged).
  • Berkley white grub with a tail.
  • Orange & yellow curl tail grub
  • Dropshotting
  • 20 in the 6"-8" range were relentless all day!
  • Berkley White Grub.
  • T-rig Kalin's Lunker Grub in bluegill

Live Baits Check Prices

  • white rooster tail
  • Seaworms

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • 2" soft plastic crawfish jig with #1 spinner
  • Drifting the jig in 6-10 feet of water

Other Check Prices

  • Shiners, senkos, plastic salamander.
  • Pink Powerbait nuggets
  • Black Spinner Bait


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  • Berkley Gulp Alive artificial salmon eggs (yellow) on an egg sinker (sliding) rig.
  • Powerbait
  • Berkley Gulp Alive floating salmon eggs (yellow)
  • These are trout waters and by RI rules that means no chumming, no corn. So boilies, glugs and maple peas were on the menu. I had a few good hits on some homemade Scopex flavored boilies but no hook ups.

    The one I did manage to catch was on Maple peas, two on a short hair, with a 2 oz semi-fixed bolt rig.
  • I had a variety of bait with me, however they were only striking a pack bait made of grits, corn juice and molasses plus some other flavoring.

    roughly 24 oz quick grits
    juice from one can of corn
    a good bit of molasses
    baby rice cereal to help fluff it out

    Place one or two corn pops on the hook and then pack it pretty good into golf ball sized lumps around your hook and pops.
  • Chummed with feed corn/maple peas and a ground mix of oats/grits/bran/condensed milk/cream corn

    Hook bait was Feed corn and maple peas
  • Fresh-cut fish, chicken liver, hot dogs, dead shiners

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